How does silent fit with the other three? Also I said world cup winners and it said incorrect. I think you should be less specific when it comes to key words needed for the connection. That goes for everyone. And I was never gonna get the game show host anagram one.

Haha I can't believe how royally I fucked that up. I read the Wikipedia page as "torn" rather than "tom" (obviously) and it was downhill from there.
Was in such a research-good-connections mode that I didn't even process what I was reading, was just all about making a great grid. Arse, and sorry.

Matt Morrison wrote:I read the Wikipedia page as "torn" rather than "tom" (obviously)

You need to consult Wikipedia to find out what a male cat is called?

No, obviously! I started with terriers and then went from "Bull" - obviously thinking male cow and then before I even scrolled down on Wikipedia to individual male animals I saw the male animal categories, soon as I read torn I thought fuck that's obscure, that's perfect, I'll just stick with the main categories.

Have a look. Medium was just an educated guess, you'll have to see for yourself.

Cool stuff. I got 10/10 but I'm a bit confused why. I knew three groups so could solve the grid, and solve their clues, but then I typed assassinations (a quick guess, not wasting time) for the 4th group and got given "correct" even though the answer was something to do with British monarchs. Hmm.

Have a look. Medium was just an educated guess, you'll have to see for yourself.

Cool stuff. I got 10/10 but I'm a bit confused why. I knew three groups so could solve the grid, and solve their clues, but then I typed assassinations (a quick guess, not wasting time) for the 4th group and got given "correct" even though the answer was something to do with British monarchs. Hmm.

I only got one group but didn't know how to explain the connection in the box so I just clicked on check and I was going to give myself the point if I was right but it said correct so I didn't type anything in for the others and got them all correct. I think he just didn't bother with keywords for the connections.

Yeah, that key word section is probably what did it, I can't remember exactly what keyword I was looking for in that particular connection, but I probably ended up taking their advice of "making the stem very general" a little too literally. It's sort of a weird system, I sort of wish I could have just put in the connection and let their system determine the key words. Specific question to Matt below:

Did you put in assassinations of British leaders or the like for the monarchs one? Now that I think about it I probably ended up making "British" an extra key word.

The system on that site for guessing connections seems to be totally messed up, or at least very unclear. I've had exactly the same issue (completely wrong answers accepted as correct, and word-for-word correct answers marked wrong) with loads of grids, including ones I've made myself. Anyway nice grid Jordan, quite hard to get started with but resolves very nicely.

Was just watching tonight's episode and have been racking my brain to figure out where I've seen Jo Durrant (contestant on the "General Practitioners") before. Anyone recognise her from University Challenge, Mastermind, Countdown, etc?

Just catching up on last week's show. Did anyone else notice an incorrect answer in the missing vowels round? Under Italian football teams they accepted a pronunciation along the lines of the INTERNACIONAL for INTERNAZIONALE, a 'French' sounding pronunciation which crucially omits the final syllable- in Italian it's INTERNATSIONALLAY. It's kinda nitpicking but that Only Connect and the missing vowels round for you

It was horrendous and did smack of deliberately closing down the round. However there are plenty of horrendous, near impossible walls and other questions to deal with too. I think the apterites just got very unlucky